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But then architects don't build their own houses.

Damien Hirst

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Damien Hirst
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: June 7
Artist
Conceptual Artist
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Installation Artist
Painter
Printmaker
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Sculptor
Visual Artist
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
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I don't really have a career plan.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.
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When we are no longer children, we are already dead.
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Never let money get in the way of an idea
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But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
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As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear
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But for me, from my point of view, I don't mind if it falls over... if you break the glass you replace the glass, if the sheep falls out you can always get a new sheep.
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
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There's always something you missed or something you didn't notice or somehow you got wrong... I don't really have a beginning.
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Here's one from me: 'You have to be aware that everyone else is thinking far too hard about themselves to be thinking about you, whoever you are.' If you want it, you can have it. Once you know that, you can be free.
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When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.
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You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.
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I just hope that I can be kind of like the Beatles. I really like that kind of model. I like the way that without losing integrity they could change through fashion and not look back at the '60s and vomit when they saw what they'd done.
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I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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